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All together   /ɔl təgˈɛðər/   Listen
All together

adverb
1.
All at the same time.  Synonym: all at once.
2.
Used of a group whose members acted or were acted upon collectively and when 'all' and 'together' can be separated by other words.  "They were all herded together" , "The books lay all together in a heap" , "The books all lay together..."






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"All together" Quotes from Famous Books



... the silver frost, Wild with windy weather, Half the autumn-tide they spend Giggling all together. Rough of coat but sweet of heart, Jolly, glad—perhaps Never finer fellows lived Than ...
— Zodiac Town - The Rhymes of Amos and Ann • Nancy Byrd Turner

... that the baby was dead. It was beyond recognition. Mrs. Boyd, who had only been stunned, had gone on her way. You have heard her side of the story, knowing the other side when Miss Arran detailed it, we sent for Dr. Kendricks and pieced it all together. You have been so occupied with your supposed mother, and I must say you have been a devoted daughter, that you have hardly noted our excitement and interest. The confession established the facts beyond a doubt in our minds, but we were not sure how the ...
— The Girls at Mount Morris • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... The beam gave at one end—it came down with a lump of brickwork after it. There was a scream from the women all huddled in the doorway to look at us—a shout from the men—two of them down but not hurt. Another tug all together—and the beam was loose at both ends. We raised it, and gave the word to clear the doorway. Now for the work! now for the rush at the door! There is the fire streaming into the sky, streaming brighter than ever to light us! Steady along the churchyard path—steady with the ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins

... used to make their appearance and begin to dust and sweep, and light fires, and such like, just after cock-crow every morning, and they all disappeared every night directly the children were safely tucked in bed. They came all together and they disappeared all together, but where they came from or where they went to nobody ever knew, so you must not ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 • Various

... family of mink that lived in a den under a root, and a big owl that always slept in the same hemlock. Then, one day when a flock of partridges led me out of the wild berry bushes into a cool green island of the burned lands, I ran plump upon the deer and her fawns lying all together under a fallen treetop, dozing away the heat ...
— Wood Folk at School • William J. Long


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